Thur» . July 12 197« (S m
3) SANDY (O r» ) POST
Records shattered
at Masters meet
It was ruining lightly on
Hie Mt II imm I Community
College track Sunday night
with lightning visible to ttw
eust and thunder rolling
ucrotts the darkened skies
‘I’he threat ni a sudd«,n
c lo u d h u n t ,
h o w e v e r,
couldn't pul u damper on the
spirit* of more than ton
athlete* from all over the
United States and several
foreign countries who made
tin* trek to Gresham for the
AAU MastersNationalTrack
and Field Championship*
World
records
were
shattered in 17 events and
new American marks were
recorded in another nine as
athletes ranging hi age from
to to H<» tolled through three
humid days of competition
Stars of the show’’ How
alwMit Irene (Ibera** A 45
year old
high
school
principal
from
Oakland,
Calif . Obera has dominated
the sprinting events in every
age gr<sip she has competed
in She owns world age group
records in fmir events that
she set in 1976 when she
competed m Division 1 A <40
44* Now running in Division
I It »45 49 •, Obera set
standards earlier this year in
the too, Ztxi and 4<xi meters
During this weekend’* meet
she lowered her marks in ull
three events
In Saturday's women's l<M)
meter final, Obera not only
outruced Hie competition in
her own division hut turned
hi
the fastest tim e of
everyone Her world record
time o( 12 63 was 57 seconds
taster (tian her nearest rival
The docking also twat the
mark she set May 12 by u7
seconds
The next day she came
back and captured th«* »X>
and 4U0. again in record
times She eclipsed her old
mark in the 200 by covering
the distance in 26 57, then
shaved three second* off her
4<X) record by winning that
race in I 01 73
Then there was Harry
Koppel
Competing
in
division 3-B (6.5 60', Kopp»-I
picked up three gold medul*
and set two world records in
the process
Ills 1 03 HH
clocking in the 400 meters
was
12 second better
the mark hr aet less than a
month ago
Koppel then
came back in the 200 to set
another world murk with a
time of 27 4H He also won the
loo meters in his age group
and finished third in the son,
an event tie hadn't competed
in since his high school days
a ha If century ago
Itundy Hubbell, a 70 year
old
weight
mun from
Altuimhru. Culif , shattered
(tie world age group mark hi
the hammer throw
His
heave of 124 3 tieltered the
three yeur old world mark
by neurly 11 feet
New American age group
records in the men's hoo und
1,500 were set by Ernie
Billups, competing fur the
University of Chicago Track
Club
The
42 year old
Billups.
who
set
the
American hoo mark exactly a
year earlier at I 57 5, this
lime covered the distance in
I 55 96, displaying a strong
finishing kick that enabled
him to win by five seconds
Then on Sunday Billups
turned in a 1,500 tune of
4 03 33 to easily outdistance
ttie field and carve 2 6
sis-onds off the record set by
Wilbur Williams in 1973
The sentimental favorite of
the crowd thrixighout the
meet, however, was Norman
Bright, a blind, 69 year old
Seattle resident who puts in
14 miles of roadwork daily
Assisted by his guide,
college
student
Craig
Coleman. Bright competed in
the I(i,(Mi) meters on Friday,
ran the Hoo on Saturday 'an
«•vent he holds an age group
world record in), then came
tiack to double in ttw* 1,500*
and 3,(XXJ on Sunday
He finished out of thi
money in the 10.1MM) and was
fourth m the H«X) t»ut came
t»ack Sunday to take silver
medals in lx»th the 1,500 and
5.000. receiving cheers and
encouragement (rom the
sizable audience each time
he passed in front of the
grandstand
In addition to his exploits
on the track. Bright was also
able to raise a substantial
amount of money to help
finunce a trip to the
In te r n a tio n a l
M a s te rs
championships in Hanover,
Germany, later this year
Making thut trip has been
one of Bright's goals this
year
This year's med marked
the third time the AAU
National Masters has come
to («resham und MHCC The
college becomes eligible to
host the meet again in 1961
AAU regulations prohibit
»wilding the competition at
the same site two years in a
row
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